SF News Berkeley Law Students Charged In Fowl Las Vegas Murder Justin Teixeira and Eric Cuellar, the two UC Berkeley law students accused of beheading a rare bird and toying with the carcass one night in Las Vegas earlier this year, have been charged
SF News Oakland Hires Former L.A. Police Chief to Consult on Crime It's been a rough year for murders in Oakland, and critics have been saying the department can't catch criminals anymore and calling for a federal takeover of the department. Now, the City Council
SF News Another East Oakland Shooting A 19-year-old man, a suspected gang member and barely, was shot multiple times on Thursday afternoon in East Oakland. The all too familiar incident, according to the victim, happened near 98th Avenue and
SF News Werq: High-Fashion Teen Escapes From Juvie Shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday night, a teenager escaped authorities while en route to juvenile hall. And you can spot the little rapscallion for he was last seen sporting the
SF News Mother Shot Inside Oakland Church On Christmas Eve Let's just give you the facts since it's all so depressing yet unsurprising: On Christmas Eve, a woman was shot in the arm while praying inside Centro Evangelistico Bethel Church in East Oakland
SF News Two Killed In Oakland Over Holiday Weekend Over on the 700 block of Market Street in Oakland on Sunday night, 26-year-old Brittan Sneed was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Acorn housing complex. Meanwhile, Oakland police identified
SF News Twitter Death Threats: 49er David Akers Back in the day, one would have to cut out letters from numerous magazines, get out the glue, pull out a sheet of paper, piece together an acceptably terrifying missive threatening grave harm,
SF News Grandmother Shot, Killed While Walking Into Oakland Store Ramona Rochelle Foreman, 49. was walking into a store on the 9100 block of International Boulevard in East Oakland on Wednesday when a stray bullet hit her. She died instantly. The bullet, according
SF News Horrible Human Tries To Rob Lady Pushing Stroller A man, described as being in his late teens or early 20s, robbed a woman pushing a stroller on Monday night in the Inner Richmond. God, people sometimes suck. According to SF Examiner,
SF News SFPD Needs Cash To Cover All Those Guns They Bought Back During the wildly successful gun buyback program at the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco on Saturday, local gun owners turned in nearly 300 firearms to the SFPD. (Likewise in Oakland, where residents
SF News Columnist Urges Drones To Make Oakland Flyovers For years now, Oakland Police and the Oakland Mayor's Office haven't been able to come up with a solution (much less work together like adults) on the city's glaring crime problem. In 2012,
SF News Over The Weekend, Hundreds of Bay Area Residents Decided They No Longer Needed To Own Guns Gun buyback programs in San Francisco and Oakland proved that, at least in the Bay Area, there are scores of people willing to abandon their right to bear arms — especially in light of
SF News Early Morning Home Invasion Rattles SF Family Early this morning on Sloat Avenue near the San Francisco Zoo, three men broke into the home of a family and robbed the place. The suspects tied up the occupants with electrical tape
SF News Mission Rapist Frederick Dozier Jr. Sentenced To 373 Years To Life Frederick Dozier Jr., the 33-year-old former school cafeteria worker convicted of violent sexual assaults against three women in the Mission earlier this year, was sentenced Friday to 373 years to life in prison.
SF News S.F. Mom Facing Charges for Abandoning Cocaine Baby A Hunter's Point woman is facing charges after reportedly giving birth to a baby boy in the pouring rain on a Bayview sidewalk, then handing the baby off to a man on the
SF News Scammers In Vallejo Attempt To Sell Worst Fake iPads Ever Every holiday season, some prankster thinks he can get away with putting rocks in a box and passing it off as an iPod or something. This year, the consumer reports section of the
SF News This Is What Bank Loot Looks Like After The Dye Pack Explodes Super sharp CHOW editor John Birdsall tweeting the following item late Thursday afternoon: "Holy Crap! Bank next to our shop in Oakland got robbed today, guys tossed the cash out of their car
SF News John McAfee Arrested in Guatemala, Blogs Crazy Stuff From Jail As Gizmodo notes today, "John McAfee is basically liveblogging his jail stint on a Central American murder rap from the personal computer of a Guatemalan jail warden." Yep. McAfee was detained yesterday in
SF News Hate Crime In The Castro On the evening of Friday, November 30, two people were pistol-whipped while being called "fags" by unknown assailants. The victims had just parked their car at Hartford Street and 18th Street when they
SF News Female Berkeley Cyclist Shot Dead Near the corner of Sacramento and Ward streets outside Longfellow Middle School on Tuesday night, a Berkeley resident found a woman shot to death while presumably riding her bike. "The citizen said the
SF News SF Man Arrested For Kidnapping, Raping Disabled Teen Described by police Chief Howard Jordan as "by far one of the most sickening cases I've seen in my career," 36-year-old Gary Steven Atkinson of San Francisco was arrested this week on multiple
SF News Lady High On Bath Salts Found Barefoot, Screaming In Middle Of Intersection Remember when bath salts were all the rage ? Well, it's back in the news and worse than ever. One Tuesday, police found a "highly agitated female" standing in the middle of an intersection
SF News Bear-Sprayed Theft Suspect's Lawyer Alleges Vigilantism Andy Anduha, the "Bicycle Bandit" famously doused with bear spray this week after attempting to steal a bait package, claimes that he's a victim of vigilantism and entrapment -- or so says his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Crook Steals Burrito, Cash In downtown burrito-swiping news, a brazen hooligan made off with cash and a burrito at a Sutter Street convenience store (presumably the 7-Eleven as reports say it happened on the 200 block) on
SF News SF General Wants LA Dodgers To Pay Up San Francisco General wants the Los Angels Dodgers to reimburse the hospital $1.2 million for "extensive trauma care" given to Giants fan Bryan Stow. If you recall, Stow was brutally beaten by
